Richard Linklater

You could make it about really just carving out the life right in front of you that that is worthy of your artistic attention.

Stories can be from your own life.

And I always took it as a call to arms for personal expression.

And, you know, there's a technological element to it.

You know, cameras had gotten lighter.

You know, it wasn't such a cumbersome thing to make a movie the way studios did it.

You could, you know, it was lighter, handheld.

You could get in the streets and, you know, just make a film in your own neighborhood kind of vibe.

So it is a freedom.

It was a freedom.

Film was maturing and technology was helping.

Well, Jean-Luc Godard's one of the great quoters of all time.

He was either quoting others or himself pouring out quotable lines.

He kind of inverted everything.

What an incredible mind.

What we're watching in the film is this kind of revolutionary moment, but I think only one guy knows it, him.

The crew, he's kind of...

flummoxing everybody around him of what he's doing because he believes if you're going to do something different, you have to do it differently, you know?

So adhering to the schedule and if you're just manufacturing a product and doing it the same way everybody else, it's like, what's the result?

You know, you got to challenge that a little bit.